Cryptic Crossword
The Evening Standard's Cryptic Crossword 9 March 2020 Answers
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1 B
2 D
3 M
4 A
D
5 A
6 M
7 B
8 P
O
9 W
E
R
C
10 T
O
D
A
Y
11 M
A
N
12 A
R
S
O
N
N
13 A
B
S
O
14 L
V
E
15 N
E
16 S
T
17 S
S
18 T
E
E
19 G
E
T
O
U
T
20 S
21 S
E
A
N
C
E
S
C
U
22 H
O
O
D
G
R
23 E
K
E
D
O
U
24 D
E
T
A
25 I
L
S
Y
26 W
27 A
S
28 H
E
R
29 I
R
E
30 A
31 S
T
A
I
N
32 K
N
A
V
33 I
S
H
T
34 L
I
G
H
T
35 E
A
T
36 V
I
L
L
A
A
37 I
N
N
E
R
C
38 S
L
A
N
T
S
R
Across
- 3. How to address a motherly horse? (5)
- 8. The ability to make a prisoner royal (5)
- 10. Now play around with some darts (5)
- 11. Chap joining “19 Across” for something to eat (3)
- 12. It’s heatedly destructive and that’s bad (5)
- 13. Free of blame in the way a sailor loves, perhaps (7)
- 15. Accommodation for some honest soldiers (5)
- 18. Where to make a start in driving (3)
- 19. To receive dismissal can mean escape (3,3)
- 21. Spirited meetings? (7)
- 22. Historic ship – a naval overhead? (4)
- 23. Stretched to half a week by the Editor (4)
- 24. A listed arrangement of minor matters (7)
- 26. The cleaner was not him! (6)
- 29. Indirect anger? (3)
- 31. Bad mark for a boy getting out of line (5)
- 32. Rascally as Jack? (7)
- 34. Easy to take when slightly reduced (5)
- 35. Don’t starve in a humble attic (3)
- 36. Pancho’s house? (5)
- 37. That hungry man’s pub at Ponder’s End (5)
- 38. An inclination to be less than upright (5)
Down
- 1. They’re much less dangerous when they stink (5)
- 2. Meant never to appear in the paper (7)
- 4. Sacred area? (4)
- 5. Makes up for having no eats? (6)
- 6. An artist took one in (5)
- 7. It’s spoken in urban Tunbridge Wells (5)
- 9. Lived in Iowa somewhere (3)
- 12. He takes satisfaction in his ability to engrave (7)
- 14. Water meadow? (3)
- 16. A punchy pair? (5)
- 17. Piano piece to peruse punctiliously (5)
- 19. Another name for Welsh granite? (7)
- 20. Demonstrates how to enter a ship (5)
- 21. So American, this composer (5)
- 23. Figures to point a ragged sleeve out (7)
- 24. Two ways to outface with a contradiction (6)
- 25. The Gershwin who composed an air (3)
- 27. It’s high in housing (5)
- 28. High ground suiting the sick in outer Hastings (5)
- 30. A bloomer can bring tears (5)
- 32. Hank’s new title of respect (4)
- 33. In hiding a heavy heart, nominally (3)